Podcast: Can Satan Heal People?

Finger-Pointing and the Impulse to Judge December 18, 2012

To no one’s surprise, yet to the sadness of many of us, several Christian spokespeople, including James Dobson, Mike Huckabee and Bryan Fischer, are blaming the shootings in Newtown, Conn, on abortion and gay marriage. This is sadly reminiscent of Jerry Falwell’s hurtful response to 9/11 when he divined that “the pagans,” “abortionists,” “feminists,” “gays,” “lesbians,”…

Lighten Up: The Devil Messin’ With Ya February 8, 2013

Podcast: How Have Your Views on Hell Changed Since Writing Satan and the Problem of Evil? February 24, 2017

Greg travels down memory lane and considers hell and annihilationism. Has his views changed? Will he stand his ground? Will he confess to being wrong? Find out in this thrilling, short adventure episode! http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0117.mp3

The Earth is a Spiritual Battlefield November 3, 2015

The early Church Fathers uniformly believed that angels, like humans, were created free and given a sphere of influence and responsibility over creation. As with humans, angels could use this influence for good, as God intended, or they could choose to use it for evil. They understood that this is simply what it means for…

Enduring an Evil-Infested World (6 Principles) —part two April 26, 2018

In the previous post, I introduced the first three principles that will help you find peace and even a sense of victory in the midst of the evil we face in this world. Here are the final three. Principle #4: Let Go of the “Why” Question and Confront Evil In the midst of suffering, we…

War in the Heavens! September 30, 2014

What does spiritual warfare look like from the perspective of the physical world? Our friend David D. Flowers speculated on that question in a post he entitled Dark Matter vs Dark Energy: War in the Heavens. Referencing Greg’s Satan and the Problem of Evil, David considers the possibility that the interaction between dark matter and dark energy that…